Re: About the license of L10n products

On 12.10.09 05:31, JiHui Choi wrote:
> Hello.
> My name is Jihui Choi.
>
> I'm trying to make a glossary for Korean amateur translators.
> I collected a lot of files from KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, GIMP and
> Launchpad of Ubuntu. Sources from
> - GNOME : http://git.gnome.org/cgit/
> - KDE : svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kde4/ko
> - OpenOffice.org : http://www.sunvirtuallab.com:32300/
> - Firefox : ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/linux-i686/xpi/ko.xpi
> - GIMP : http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gimp/ http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gimp-gap/
> - Launchpad : https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+language-packs
>
>
> I have some questions about the license. If you help me or introduce me someone
> who can help me, I'll really appreciate to you. :)
>
> 1. KDE and GNOME includes many projects. Does each project have their own
> license, or only projects which are published as a specific license like as GPL
> or BSD? For example, every L10n works on Launchpad are under BSD, aren't them?
>
> 2. If each project has their own license for their L10n works, how can I handle
> those if I want to collect them and reproduce something using them.
> I'm making a glossary using many L10n works from many projects.
>
> 3. Can I publish and share my glossary under GPL? If I can, which version
> should I use, v3.0 or v2.0? There are several licenses, for GNOME, KDE and
> GIMP are GPL, LGPL for OpenOffice, Firefox has MPL and BSD for Launchpad.
> I wonder whether I can mix all these licenses and publish under a specific
> license such as GPL.
>
>
> I'd like to share my works under GPL or similar it and works with many people.
> However, before that I think I should make to be clear about the license.
> Here is my demo. http://gloss.mr-dust.pe.kr/
>
> Please check my demo and help me. Thank you, all.
>

Redirecting to mozilla.legal.

In general, you're asking questions hard enough to warrant getting 
actual legal advice and not just people's opinion. In particular the 
license on launchpad stuff.

Firefox localizations that we host are under MPL/GPL/LGPL, see 
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ for the precise terms.

You could choose to use the GPL license of that. Whether projects can 
use your glossary then back for Firefox localizations (or Thunderbird), 
is a completely different question, and rather likely a "no".

That said, those are my personal opinions, I am not a lawyer. You do 
want a lawyer, though. Depending on your local laws, you may or may not 
need to get that response in a one-on-one setup.

Axel